Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nations may send at least 100 annually to the U. S. Bhutan (in the Himalayas), the British Cameroons, Liechtenstein, Muscat, Nauru, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Yap and ten others sent none...
During the struggle Adolf Hitler feted at Berchtesgaden with lavish honors swarthy envoys of King Ibn Saud, the potent super-Sheik who in the last generation has carved out in Arabia a kingdom roughly one-quarter as large as the U. S. After high German and British bids for Saudi Arabia's oil were in, Japan bid frantically still higher. Standard bid low but kept reminding the King of what German or Japanese-or even British-agents might soon be doing to disrupt his realm if let in on the ground floor. When he finally closed with Standard...
...Standard had won the State Department could not ignore, although Washington had hitherto not thought it necessary to have diplomatic relations with the Near East's largest State. On July 26 orders were given to accredit His Excellency Bert Fish, already U. S. Minister to Egypt, additionally to Saudi Arabia, and last week down the Red Sea at last sailed Bert Fish...
Jidda, chief port of Saudi Arabia, is too scorching hot for tourists, and death is traditionally the penalty for any non-Mohammedan who should venture inland from it to Holy Mecca, birthplace of Mohammed. Jidda harbor is protected by two miles of treacherous reefs, and gingerly last week the chugging little steamer bearing Bert Fish went threading in through the narrow, twisty channel called "Jidda Gate." The blinding white and torrid town, where every window is latticed against the sun, is a maze of narrow streets into which tall stucco houses jut at crazy angles...
...than four wives at any one time." Bert Fish last week voiced hopes "for the personal happiness of Your Majesty and the prosperity of your people," presented Ibn Saud with a silver-framed photograph of President Roosevelt. Before returning to Cairo, the U. S. Minister will travel narrowly in Saudi Arabia, widely in the Sudan and Upper Egypt...